unicode::charname(3)
NAME
Unicode::CharName - Look up Unicode character names
SYNOPSIS
use Unicode::CharName qw(uname ublock);
print uname(ord('%')), "0;
print ublock(0x0300), "0;
DESCRIPTION
- This module provide a two functions named uname() and
ublock(). The uname() function will return the Unicode character name for the given code (a number between 0 and
0x10FFFF). Unicode character names are written in uppercase ASCII letters, and are strings like: - LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH 7C80
HANGUL SYLLABLE PWILH - The ublock() will return the name of the Unicode character block that the given character belongs to.
SEE ALSO
Unicode::String
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1997 Gisle Aas.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
- Name table extracted from the Unicode 2.0 Character
Database. Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Unicode, Inc. All Rights
reserved.